{"id":634,"date":"2016-05-05T20:01:24","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T01:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/?p=634"},"modified":"2018-11-18T19:49:33","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T00:49:33","slug":"more-rubiks-cube-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/2016\/05\/05\/more-rubiks-cube-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"More Rubik\u2019s cube challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have already learned how to solve a Rubik\u2019s cube, then you may start getting bored with it. That\u2019s when you can start coming up with new ways to make it a challenge. Here are a few suggestions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Solve it with only your dominant hand<\/li>\n<li>Solve it with only your non-dominant hand<\/li>\n<li>Solve it blind-folded<\/li>\n<li>Solve it from a different face than you are used to (e.g., instead of starting with white, start with a different color)<\/li>\n<li>Solve it to a different state (e.g., solve it to the checkerboard pattern)<\/li>\n<li>Try to fully scramble the cube (i.e., such that no face has two adjacent squares with the same color)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Fully scrambling a cube is surprisingly difficult. I managed to do it after a minute or two when I first thought of it, but then doing it again took a long time. It is however possible and I\u2019ve recorded my last three scrambles (I didn\u2019t note down the first one). It is possible with a 2x2x2 as well as a 3x3x3. I don\u2019t know if it possible with higher-order cubes. As a tangentially-related challenge, see if you can mathematically prove or disprove the possibility of fully-scrambling higher-order cubes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blogs\/smarticles\/files\/2018\/03\/Fully-Scrambled-2x2x2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blogs\/smarticles\/files\/2018\/03\/Fully-Scrambled-2x2x2-300x233.png\" alt=\"Geometric net of a fully-scrambled Rubik\u2019s cube\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" size-medium wp-image-638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/files\/2018\/03\/Fully-Scrambled-2x2x2-300x233.png 300w, https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/files\/2018\/03\/Fully-Scrambled-2x2x2.png 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blogs\/smarticles\/files\/2018\/03\/Fully-Scrambled-3x3x3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blogs\/smarticles\/files\/2018\/03\/Fully-Scrambled-3x3x3.png\" alt=\"Geometric net of a fully-scrambled Rubik\u2019s cube\" width=\"220\" height=\"165\" size-full wp-image-635\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blogs\/smarticles\/files\/2018\/03\/Fully-Scrambled-3x3x3-.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blogs\/smarticles\/files\/2018\/03\/Fully-Scrambled-3x3x3--300x166.png\" alt=\"Geometric net of a fully-scrambled Rubik\u2019s cube\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" size-medium wp-image-636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/files\/2018\/03\/Fully-Scrambled-3x3x3--300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/files\/2018\/03\/Fully-Scrambled-3x3x3-.png 574w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blogs\/smarticles\/files\/2018\/03\/Fully-Scrambled-3x3x3-1-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blogs\/smarticles\/files\/2018\/03\/Fully-Scrambled-3x3x3-1-1-300x166.png\" alt=\"Geometric net of a fully-scrambled Rubik\u2019s cube\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" size-medium wp-image-637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/files\/2018\/03\/Fully-Scrambled-3x3x3-1-1-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/files\/2018\/03\/Fully-Scrambled-3x3x3-1-1.png 574w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have already learned how to solve a Rubik\u2019s cube, then you may start getting bored with it. That\u2019s when you can start coming up with new ways to make it a challenge. Here are a few suggestions: Solve it with only your dominant hand Solve it with only your non-dominant hand Solve it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}